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April 11, 2025
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Reading poems by Montserrat Villar
  • April 11th, 7:00 p.m.
  • Auditorium of the Public Library of Zamora
  • Free admission until full capacity

Writer Montserrat Villar will read poems from her entire body of work, but especially from her two most recent books: "Ubuntu" and "A Unicorn in Albanta" (a tribute book to Aute and Silvio Rodríguez, forthcoming). The event will be presented by Pilar Antón.

Montserrat Villar González (Cortegada de Baños, 1969) is a Spanish poet, philologist and translator, specialized in poetry in the Portuguese language, mainly in that of the poet Álvaro Alves de Faria, whom she has translated. Also noteworthy are his bilingual collections of poems in Spanish and Galician.

She holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Salamanca and later in Portuguese Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Professionally, she works in the field of Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE) teacher, teaching courses and giving lectures for teacher training. She specializes in Brazilian poetry and has translated poetry by Álvaro Alves de Faria, Marco Lucchesi, and other Portuguese authors into Spanish. As a poet, she regularly contributes to literary blogs, discussion groups, and other events as president of the PentaDrama Cultural Association. She participates in numerous poetry gatherings in Portugal and Spain and, for three consecutive years, has coordinated the Ciudad Juárez Writers' Gathering in Salamanca. This meeting aims to raise our voices against violence and in memory of the poet Susana Chávez.

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  • Postal address Biblioteca Pública de Zamora - Plaza Claudio Moyano, s/n. municipality of Zamora . NaN. Zamora